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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Okoye need to collect a past debt from Unkona?
(a) To buy yams for his three wives.
(b) To help pay for the expensive Idemili title ceremony.
(c) Okoye needs money to help him overcome his failures.
(d) To buy a new ogene, the musical instrument Okoye played.

2. One night, the storytelling of Okonkwo 's wives and children stops because the priestess, Chielo is shouting in a high-pitched voice. What does she tell Okonkwo?
(a) That Agbala needs to talk to Okonkwo
(b) That Agbala, the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves wants to see Ezinma
(c) That Agbala is putting a curse on Okonkwo's house
(d) That Agbala wants to see all Okonkwo's wives

3. Who appears in front of Ekwefi as she waits tearfully outside Agbala's cave?
(a) Chielo
(b) Nwoye's mother
(c) Okonkwo
(d) Nwoye

4. What is the strange event that takes place in the village of Ire that Ofoedo tells Okonkwo and Obierika about?
(a) All the people in the village of Ire awoke in the night from dreams of disasters to come.
(b) The children of Ire stopped speaking for two days and went into a trance-like state.
(c) All the yams planted in the fields rotted during the night from a curse sent by evil spirits.
(d) Ogbuefi Ndulue, the oldest man in the Ire village died and upon hearing about it, his wife, Ozoemena, died also.

5. What does the priestess do when she brings Ezinma out of Agbala's cave?
(a) She comes out of the cave, giving Okonkwo and Ekwefi a lock of Ezinma's hair. She tells them to bury it in the yam field.
(b) She doesn't say a word to Okonkwo or Ekwefi, but carries Ezinma back to Okonkwo's compound and places Ezinma in bed.
(c) She comes out of the cave and tells Okonkwo and Ekwefi that Agbala wants them to leave, or Ezinma will be sacrificed.
(d) She comes out of the cave alone, telling Okonkwo and Ekwefi that Ezinma has to remain in the cave for two days and nights.

6. How does Unoka react when Okoye asks him to repay the two hundred cowries owed to him?
(a) He tells Okoye that he would be paid before anyone else.
(b) He bursts out laughing.
(c) He promises to repay the money without delay.
(d) He offers kola nuts as repayment instead of money.

7. Where does Chielo bring Ezinma?
(a) To where dead children are buried
(b) To the yam fields
(c) To the village of Umuachi, then turns around and continues back to the hills of Agbala
(d) Deep into the forest

8. Why is Okonkwo's twelve-year-old son, Nwoye, causing him great anxiety?
(a) Nwoye complains about having to work in the fields from dawn to dusk.
(b) Okonkwo is jealous of his son's growing strength.
(c) Nwoye is a wild, unruly boy.
(d) Okonkwo believes his son to be lazy.

9. Why do men and women look forward to the Feast of the New Yam?
(a) The men and women cook and feed each other the yams from the previous harvest so that no food will be wasted.
(b) It is the beginning of the season of plenty--the new year. It begins with huge quantities of fresh yams, yam foo foo and vegetable soup.
(c) It is a festival of dancing around the new yams of the season and eating the rest of the old yams for the previous year.
(d) It is a feast of yam stew made from all the leftover yams of the past harvest, which is divided among all the people.

10. What is Okonkwo's punishment for committing a "nso-ani" during the Week of Peace?
(a) Bring a bamboo basket of yams, a flask of palm-wine and a hen to the shrine of Ani.
(b) Go to the shrine of Ani and confess his disrespectful behavior to the gods of the clan, remaining on his knees throughout a day and night.
(c) Go to the shrine of Ani, fast for three days, and beg forgiveness for breaking the sacred peace.
(d) Bring a she-goat, one hen, a length of cloth, and a hundred cowries to the shrine of Ani.

11. What are the things that Okonkwo fears most?
(a) The forest and magic.
(b) Forces of nature.
(c) Failure, weakness, and himself.
(d) Evil and capricious gods.

12. During the rainy season, how do the people of the village pass the time?
(a) They spent time in the hut, listening to flute music, weaving baskets, and sleeping.
(b) In each hut, children sit by their mother's cooking fire and tell stories, or sit with their father, roasting and eating maize.
(c) They spend many hours praying to the gods for a bountiful harvest.
(d) They prepare yam seeds for next year's fields.

13. How does Ezinma, the daughter of Okonkwo's second wife, bring fire to Nwoye's mother's hut?
(a) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, makes a torch of banana leaves and palm oil, and gives it to Ezinma to carry to Nwoye's mother.
(b) Ezinma carries a flaming stick across the compound to Nwoye's mother's hut.
(c) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, puts live coals into a piece of broken pot and Ezinma carries it to Nwoye's mother.
(d) Ekwefi, Okonkwo's second wife, gives Ezinma a clay pot with burning leaves inside to carry to Nwoye's mother's hut.

14. Okonkwo is sitting in his obi with Ikemefuna and Nwoye, eating dried locusts when Ogbuefi Ezeudu comes with a message. What is the message?
(a) Ikemefuna is to be given all the rights of an adopted son to Okonkwo.
(b) Umuofia decides to kill Ikemefuna. The Oracle of the Hills pronounces it. Okonkwo is not to take part in the killing because the boy calls him father.
(c) Nwoye and Ikemefuna are to be declared by Umuofia as brothers for life.
(d) Ikemefuna is to remain in Okonkwo's household as a servant for the rest of his life.

15. Okonkwo and the men of Umuofia take Ikemefuna deep into the forest and kill him with machetes. Who gives the final thrust of the machete that ends Ikemefuna's life?
(a) Nwoye
(b) Okafo
(c) Okonkwo
(d) Ogbuefi Ezendu

Short Answer Questions

1. While talking with Okoye about the war, Unkona changes the subject to which topic?

2. What does every man and his family do after the Week of Peace?

3. What does Okagbue, the medicine man, dig up from under the orange tree that makes the people of the village believe that Ezinma will live to adulthood?

4. What is used to inform all the men of the Umuofia to meet in the market place the following morning?

5. What is the festival that gives thanks to Ani, the earth goddess and source of fertility?

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